racemose

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Heads spicate or racemose, the involucre well imbricated.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Panicle simple or compound; the spikelets often racemose, purplish.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Flowers.—In a dense, pyramidal panicle, four to twelve inches long, with mostly erect racemose branches.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

F. A compound racemose gland with duct passing to a free surface.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

Slender, strict and simple, with few or several racemose or terminal heads, like those of the last; leaves lanceolate or linear, the lower usually long and narrow.—S. W. Va., and southward.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa